A proper diet is the cornerstone of healthy child growth. Many parents come to the clinic because their babies have poor appetite, low food intake, lethargy and slow growth. Most of them have unscientific and unbalanced eating habits, such as drinking milk before bedtime or eating frequently from dinner to bedtime. For example, parents say: the baby eats very little for breakfast, the teacher also reflects that the diet at noon in kindergarten is not to the taste of eating not much, back from school because of hunger will eat some cake snacks and so on, the amount of dinner is okay, and then eat some fruit, snacks, and drink a glass of milk before bedtime. These children tend to be sleepy, kick the blanket, toss and turn, and talk in their sleep. The following we will analyze the problems of the above situation: the hazards of eating before bed: 1, easy to cause stagnation of milk food: drinking milk or eating before bedtime, the digestive capacity of people after going to sleep is extremely weak, the small capacity of the stomach of children, digestive capacity is particularly weak, the digestion of milk takes about 3 hours, more difficult to be digested, so easy to cause stagnation of milk food, and then damage the baby’s spleen and stomach function. 2, affect sleep: milk food stagnation in the stomach and intestines, but also affect sleep. The classic work of Chinese medicine “Huangdi Neijing Suwen” clearly put forward the theory of “stomach disharmony is restlessness”, which means that uncontrolled diet and food stagnation in the stomach and intestines will lead to slow sleep, shallow sleep, prone, frequent turning over, kicking the blanket, easy to wake up, dreamy, early awakening, or lack of wakefulness, etc. 3, affect the amount of breakfast: baby sleep into the milk and diet because it is not easy to be digested and absorbed during sleep and stop accumulating in the gastrointestinal, breakfast in the stomach is still full, so breakfast eating less. Breakfast for children to the most important, the day, the body’s ability to digest and absorb nutrients in the morning is the strongest, the morning physical and mental energy consumption is also the most. If you eat less breakfast or do not eat, its dietary energy is in short supply, for a long time, will affect the growth and development of children. Therefore, the protein and fat-containing, nutrient-rich foods should be reasonably arranged in breakfast and Chinese food. As the saying goes: eat like an emperor for breakfast, eat like a commoner for lunch, and eat like a beggar for dinner. “Eat like an emperor” is to say that breakfast nutrition should be comprehensive. Milk, eggs, staple foods, fruits, vegetables nutrition different kinds of things to have. Milk rich nutrition in breakfast is better. “Eat like a commoner” refers to the lunch variety to be more, a reasonable mix of meat and vegetables balanced; “eat like a beggar” refers to dinner to eat less, eat too much or too good will not only affect sleep, but also make people’s metabolism imbalance, increase the burden on the stomach, so dinner should be Light vegetarian food is the main. 4, affect height: the main determinant of children’s growth is growth hormone (GH). Growth hormone can promote protein synthesis and muscle growth, and can activate bone growth factor, accelerate the metabolism and growth of bones, so that the body continues to grow taller. Growth hormone secretion is low in childhood and increases in adolescence. Growth hormone secretion is related to a variety of factors, and is strongly related to sleep. Before puberty, children only secrete it during sleep, during puberty it is secreted both day and night, but it is still mainly secreted at night. The growth hormone secreted within 60-90 minutes after children fall asleep is 1/2 to 3/4 of the amount secreted throughout the day, which shows the importance of sleep for children’s growth. Here, parents should note that growth hormone secretion is influenced by the quality of sleep. Babies need to sleep well before they secrete more growth hormone, and it is difficult for babies to enter deep sleep after eating, thus affecting the secretion of growth hormone. Therefore, the growth of height may also be affected, the reason for the saying “people grow in sleep” lies in this. Knowing the dangers of eating before bed, parents want their children to grow up healthy, both to eat nutritious and to grow high, how do we regulate the diet? 1, dinner choose easy to digest food, eat full. Do not eat before going to bed, so as not to fall asleep after the organs still maintain operation. 2, dinner time is relatively long before going to sleep. Half an hour after dinner, you can eat some fruit, and then try not to eat, to ensure that the baby sleep on an empty stomach. Sleeping on an empty stomach is sweet. 3, adjust the time to drink milk, should be placed in the breakfast or daytime. 4, breakfast varieties should be rich, rich in nutrition. 5.Baby has formed the habit of drinking milk before bedtime, otherwise he/she will cry, how to solve it? If you can’t stop it at once, it is recommended to dilute the milk to 1/3~1/2 first, while reducing the amount of milk, and then gradually stop using it. This article is authorized by Dr. Zhou Jingdong.